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The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson by May Swenson (Paperback - Reprint)

Brings together ninety-seven poems by the respected twentieth-century writer as culled from her published collections of poetry as well as twenty-three works from her unpublished manuscripts. Reprint.

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Treasury of Chinese Love Poems by Xiaolong Qiu (Hardcover - Bilingual)

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Love Poems by Women/an Anthology of Poet...

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Poem A Day by Retta Bowen (Paperback - S...

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Love Poems by Women/an Anthology of Poetry from Around the World and Through the Ages by Wendy Mulfo

For over 2,000 years women have been writing love poetry. Here is the first anthology of love poems written only by women. Poets from all ages and all parts of the world, expressing love not only for their male and female lovers, but for parents, children, friends, for art, God, nature, and homeland, are collected here, and include the works of: Sappho, Emily Dickenson, Ono no Komachi, Shadab Vajdi, Alice Walker, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and many more.

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Poem A Day by Retta Bowen (Paperback - Steerforth Pr)

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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (Hardcover - Anniversary)

If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer,
A wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er,
A magic bean buyer . . .

Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound.

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The Poets' Corner by John Lithgow (Hardc...

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A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (Hardcover - Harpercollins Childrens Books)

"Silverstein's book . . . deserves to be placed along-side Mother Goose. Popular with adults and youngsters alike, the poetry encompasses satires, limericks, ballads, questions, tall stories, ridiculous situations, and a deft way with language."--"Language Arts." An ALA Notable Children's Book; "School Library Journal" Best Books of 1981. Full-color illustrations.

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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emi...

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The Poets' Corner by John Lithgow (Hardcover - Grand Central Pub)

Hand-selected by a Tony Award-winning actor, a volume of family-appropriate classic works of poetry is accompanied by a CD recording of poetry readings by Lithgow as well as such actors as Morgan Freeman, Glenn Close, and Gary Sinise.

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Falling Up by Shel Silverstein (Hardcove...

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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson (Paperback - Back Bay Books)

Here is the real Emily Dickinson -- the only comprehensive and reliably authoritative trade editions of the poet's work. While it is today universally acknowledged that Dickinson was a poet of the highest order, the startling originality of her poems doomed her work to obscurity in her own lifetime. Early posthumous publication efforts -- including the 1924 Complete Poems edited by the poet's niece and published by Little, Brown -- did not fully and fairly represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, or the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the publication of Harvard University Press's 1955 The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, comprising three hardcover volumes edited by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able to understand and appreciate Dickinson's entire oeuvre. These books are also the fruit of Thomas H. Johnson's prodigious scholarship. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson distills the three-volume hardcover Complete, bringing together in a single volume all 1,775 poems that Dickinson wrote. Final Harvest is the only truly comprehensive selection of Dickinson's verse: 576 poems that trace the arc of her development as a writer. A feast for all who love poetry, these are the standard texts against which all other Dickinson collections must be measured.

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Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy (Har...

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Falling Up by Shel Silverstein (Hardcover - Harpercollins Childrens Books)

I tripped on my shoelace And I fell up
--Irreverent poet, whimsical artist and bestselling author -- Shel Silverstein is back!
Falling Up, the brand-new collection of more than 140 Silverstein poems and drawings, is the long-awaited companion to the bestselling classics Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book. You also will meet Allison Beals and her 25 eels; Danny O'Dare the Dancin'Bear; the Human Balloon; Headphone Harold; and more! So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride the Little Horse, eat in the Strange Restaurant and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind.

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Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy (Hardcover - Hyperion)

In this stellar follow-up to The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the author collects more than one hundred of her family's best-loved poems from all over the world, accompanied by beautiful watercolor illustrations.

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The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse by David Norbrook (Paperback - Reprint)

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (Paperba...

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (Paperback - Dover Pubns)

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Poems for Life by Anna Quindlen (Hardcover - Arcade Pub)

When a group of fifth grade students asked fifty celebrities what their favorite poem was and why, the answers they received became a beautiful collection of some of history's most beloved poetry, which continues to resonate from one generation to the next.

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Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments by George P. Garrett (Paperback - Louisiana State Univ Pr)

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Sex at Noon Taxes by Sally Van Doren (Paperback - Louisiana State Univ Pr)

Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in SEX AT NOON TAXES mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic ambivalence, embedded in which is a struggle between the mind and the body...A preoccupation with the visual, artists, and artwork seeps through many of these imagistic minitexts. These poems look for release in descriptions of physical acts and in intricate manipulations of language. Sometimes they find it...Gender identification blurs as the poems probe theories of articulation and investigate the geographies of language and love. Through wordplay and word work, these poems travel a tightly crafted sphere of emotions and ideas.

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C. P. Cavafy by C.P. Cavafy (Hardcover - Alfred a Knopf Inc)

Cavafy's poetry and the stories he tells brilliantly explore, with striking universality, longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, and all with a profound, human sympathy, whether advising Odysseus as he sets out for Ithaca, or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the night of his death.

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The Tale of Kieu/a Bilingual Edition of Truyen Kieu by Nguyen Du (Paperback - Reprint)

Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Huynh's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.

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99 Poemas De Amor by NUDELMANN S. DIAZ (...

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Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike (Hardcover - Alfred a Knopf Inc)

This collection of poems from one of the 20th century's most distinguished American authors was completed only weeks before his death in January 2009, and is being released just in time for National Poetry Month in April.

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